Weird Crosses

[TrishB]

I got this idea from another thread - what is the strangest cross bred dog you've ever seen?

I've seen a Dachshund x GSD. The female was the GSD, the male was the Dachshund - he got up on a bail of hay at a horse show and she backed up to him. I guess where there's a will, there's a way!

The offspring had GSD coats and heads and weighed about 30 lbs. They were short (5" below my knee) and long bodied. Very bizarre!

I also was able to pick out an English Springer Spaniel and a Border Collie. The dog had a Border coat and body, very intense look about him - but the saggy lips of the Springer and was liver and white colouring. Very neat looking dog.

What about you guys?

[DixieGrl113]

A golden w/a corgie. I ended up takin in one of the pups temporarily because she was the only one left and he (Mr. John Q. Irresponsible-Owner) was going to drop her off at a Wal-Mart parking lot. I saw this pup a few years later with her new owner and she was soooo funny lookin it was cute. Had the coat and head of a Golden with the long short body of a Corgie.....lol

[Kayla]

Someone in my neighborhood has a beautiful male that is a mix of rottie and bull mastiff. He is tall and built like a huge rottie at about 170lbs. His coat is a solid redish tan and his temperment seems calm and friendly. He's a really beautiful big boy!

[TrishB]

Originally posted by Kayla
Someone in my neighborhood has a beautiful male that is a mix of rottie and bull mastiff. He is tall and built like a huge rottie at about 170lbs. His coat is a solid redish tan and his temperment seems calm and friendly. He's a really beautiful big boy!

Really? I know of a Neo. Mastiff X with a Rottie. He's bigger than either of the breeds and is a BEAUTIFUL brown / black brindle (which isn't a colour variation of either breed). Max is the biggest sweetheart on this planet. And you always know when he's been sleeping under the kitchen table, because when he gets up, he walks away with the table!! :D hehehe

Isn't it strange that here's 2 Rottie X Mastiff dogs that are both larger than either of their crosses?? How bizarre! :)

[frau]

Someone in the Roanoke, VA area advertises mixes for sale for $600:

Rottie x Bullmastiff
GSD x Bullmastiff

Not odd combinations but odd that someone pays $600 for a mixed breed.

One of the oddest I have seen is a Shapei/Collie. It had the distinctive Shapei head and muzzle with half-prick ears and long tufts of hair sprouting from the back side of the ears, smooth face but goatee. Long hair was where the coarser back hair would be on a rottie. Short hair was very short. Poor thing looked like it had mange, but it didn't. Jim Henson has created Muppets which look similar.

Frau

[lblax]

Originally posted by frau
Someone in the Roanoke, VA area advertises mixes for sale for $600:

Rottie x Bullmastiff
GSD x Bullmastiff

Not odd combinations but odd that someone pays $600 for a mixed breed.

One of the oddest I have seen is a Shapei/Collie. It had the distinctive Shapei head and muzzle with half-prick ears and long tufts of hair sprouting from the back side of the ears, smooth face but goatee. Long hair was where the coarser back hair would be on a rottie. Short hair was very short. Poor thing looked like it had mange, but it didn't. Jim Henson has created Muppets which look similar.

Frau

sounds like they are breeding dogs to fight!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rottnelmo]

When doing rescue, we brought back a Rottie/Springer mix. She was a typical black rottie, with rottie build rottie markings, except that she had two white socks with small blue spots. She was sooo cute! She looked like she had socks on.

Right now in foster we have a pit bull/beagle/lab/boxer mix. He is the cutest thing. I have also seen a pit bull/husky mix.

When I was growing up we had a Collie/St. Bernard mix who was an intact male who got in to the kennel with a blue heeler.

So we had Collie/St. Bernard/Heeler mixes. They had the long coats, but had the heeler markings and they were broad bodys, some had the Saint heads, others had the collie or heeler heads. They were the funniest!

[Alaskan]

My sister has a boxer/labrador mix pup. He has the head and body of a labrador but his coat is a blend of black and brown as if it started out as stripes on his shoulders then swirled into masses of circles along his sides like a marble, so they called him marble naturally.:D

[anna&jacksmom]

I saw a Rottweiler Dalmation mix the other day. She looked just like a Rottie except everywhere that should have been brown was white with black dots. She was a very pretty dog but, I have no idea about her personality.

[MARYDVM]

We just had a Basset X Great Dane come through the clinic. Short legs, about twice as tall as a pure Basset, Great Dane head and ears. I don't know how the parents made it work, but she is a very sweet dog.

[rottlove]

Our dog while I was growing up was half pedigreed dachshund, half GSD/muttlike mix. He was basically a rather large dachshund. We loved him dearly and he lasted almost forever. The mother was the dachshund ... poor dear!

My Caesar is half dobie half rott and a WONDERFUL temperament; he came out of a cardboard box at a Texaco station. Looks like a very tall and streamlined Rottie.

[Soapie&Buddy'sMom]

I think crosses are some of the most beautiful dogs around. My Soapie girl is a Chow-terrier mix, supposedly, but I know the shelter I got her from was just guessing. Soapie has a chow tongue (blue) and chow eyes, and some chow furriness, but she also has the terrier exuberance (JUMPS vertically when fed each and every time, and when asked, "do you want to go for a walk?" she is ready to rocket into the stratosphere, whereas the other two - Rottie-mix Buddy and Yellow lab Miller, simply bark or pace). Soapie's fur is a beautiful shade of auburn that I have never seen in a dog. It is much darker than any Chow, and even darker than an Irish Setter, although closer to that color than anything else. Many times women have said to me that they would love to have hair the color of Soapie's fur (I say, get in line, sis!)

So I have to say that my Soapie girl is not a weird mix, but a beautiful one. :)

[DanaDW]

Just adopted a GSD/Chow and she is gorgeous. She is staying overnight to be spayed & I'll bring her home tomorrow. What her personality will be like is anybody's guess (she's about 8 weeks old) but I'm sure we'll work things out.

[Miabella]

At the shelter where I volunteer, we had a litter of 10 pups come in last year that the owner swore were a cross between a doberman and a shih tzu. However, they were wire haired with bearded faces and had really short legs with really long bodies. Almost like a wired haired dachshund, but beefier. Now that was a weird cross.

[Alaskan]

My mix breed dog Apache (the sixteen and a half year old) is a cross between a black/white siberian husky (which had one blue eye one brown eye) and a white samoyed. Apache has a deep chocolate brown coat with dark brown ears, muzzle and white feet as well as a white tip on his tail. He is larger than both parents and about the size of an akita. He also has the beautiful, ice blue eyes of the siberian husky.:)